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To: one_less who wrote (80884)6/6/2000 12:56:00 PM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 108807
 
Graffiti is interesting, actually, because it may be a kind of folk art in its more creative moments, but it is meant to be on public display on bridges and conveyances. On the other hand, most of it is just trash, constituting vandalism. Basquiat, by appropriating graffiti for his paintings, sought to dignify it, and, on some canvases that I have seen, succeeded. He was the Grandma Moses of graffiti artists, so to speak.......